The ancient Greeks at science's start,
Saw all the world's constituents
As things which strove to stay apart,
And called these things the elements.

Now earth, for one, would remain down,
And if displaced into the air,
Would seek return unto the ground,
For nat'rally its place was there.

And, likewise, with the other two,
In this way forces were explained.
They understood why it was true,
While some things moved, others remained.

In subatomic current days,
We scoff at early science games,
Creating force in different ways,
A muddled mess of part'cle names.

But sometimes early models hold
And while you're digging through their ore,
You'll find a nugget made of gold
In knowledge from those days of yore.

For I have learned, and it is thus,
Simple as with those el'ments three,
That I'm not I, but half of us,
With you-- the natural place for me.


(for my wife)